This Much is True

by Miriam Margolyes

would have been a difficult job to be headmistress there because the parents would always have thought they knew better: the dons of Oxford are a conceited bunch. But our

They were used to opposition from the very beginning, therefore, and were never defeated by it.

sometimes, I was so overwhelmed and exhausted that I would fall asleep on the floor: that’s always my escape when I’m frightened of something,

I haven’t mellowed – I’ve billowed.

Many of them call themselves Christians – evangelicals. I call them ‘evil-gelicals’. The

if Tooting Bec Lido and Brockwell Lido were heated in the winter, I would be so happy.

The goal of life is to end up wiser. But more importantly, I think it should be to end up kinder, both to yourself and everyone around you